Moneyweb community member tells us how For Whites Only inspired him to write an apology.

I recently read Charles Cilliers' book For Whites Only**. It was insightful, sometimes made me very sad, but also gave me hope for the future. It is due to this book that I would like to address the following apology to everyone who suffered under Apartheid.

I am sorry for my direct contribution, the contribution of my family and the contribution of my people to Apartheid. I am deeply ashamed to be one of the "children" in whose name so many atrocities were perpetrated.

I am sorry for the deeds that were committed for decades to ensure cheap labour on our mines, farms and in our factories. I am sorry for the land appropriation, the pass laws, the laws that denied property and business ownership and I am sorry about bantu education.

I am sorry that for generations, so many parents could not say to their children, "My child, if you work hard enough and you have enough perseverance, you can achieve anything", and instead had to say "My child, stop dreaming and be realistic".

I am sorry about the Group Areas Act, the anti-miscegenation laws and racial classification that tore apart so many families.

I am sorry that for so long, so many people in our country could not sleep soundly, fearing that knock on the door late at night.

I am sorry about Sharpeville, Soweto and the state of emergency in the eighties. I am sorry about Steven Biko, Nelson Mandela and so many others.

I am sorry that despite the fact that I never had the option of voting for the old NP, I still gained so much advantage from Apartheid. I am sorry that my mother had access to the best medical care before and during my birth while your mother did not. I am sorry that my mother and father were there all through my childhood years to love me, take care of me and lead me, while yours were so often absent. I am sorry that I had electricity and running water while you had to walk for kilometres to gain access to fresh water. I am sorry that I went to school every day on a full stomach while you were hungry. I am sorry that I could be educated in small classrooms by good teachers and you could not. I am sorry that the bank was willing to lend me money for university while they showed you the door. I am sorry that I was able to get my first job through contacts, while you did not have the same opportunity.

I am sorry that I am sometimes negative about our country, not having the perspective to realise that we are not unique in our failings. I am sorry that I do not do more to counter and reject the racist comments of others. I am sorry that I also sometimes harbour racist thoughts.

I am sorry that I do not speak IsiXhosa or IsiZulu, while you speak three or more languages. I am sorry that I sometimes look down at you for pronouncing a word funnily in your fourth language.

I am sorry that I am not friendlier to the woman at the traffic light and the man in the parking area. I am sorry that I am too scared to go to Khayelitsha. I am sorry that I do not go to more trouble to make you my friend.

But I am also grateful. I am grateful that you do not hate me, despite what I and my ancestors did to you. I am grateful that you are so willing to reach out a hand of friendship to me. I am grateful that you do not question my right to exist in this wonderful country. I am grateful to be a proud South African.

Is not our role to stand for the one thing which means our own salvation here but with which it will also be possible to save the world, and with which Europe will be able to save itself, namely the preservation of the white man and his state?

Hendrik Verwoerd

To think what is true, sense what is beautiful, want what is good: This implies the ability to identify and label lies, the ability to identify and label the inhumane, and the ability to identify﻿ and label injustice. It also implies character , knowledge of our immortality, steadfastness and incorruptibility. With such character we might shape a world for the many children who were here today. A world in which we are allowed to speak the truth without punishment.

Sylvia StolzErnst Zundel's German defence attorney, jailed for trying to defend her client because she asked for proof of the Holocaust

Did anyone see that old white women at one or two of Malema's supporter rallies dancing and jumping around like a true white kaffir and calling for Malema to be president? What the **** is in that head of hers?

Did anyone see that old white women at one or two of Malema's supporter rallies dancing and jumping around like a true white kaffir and calling for Malema to be president? What the **** is in that head of hers?

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Re: Why I am sorry about Apartheid

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Originally Posted by Vry Burgher

Oh I have no intention of getting into that discussion...

It makes me too angry to know people like that exist... so angry I don't want to talk anymore...

That is a bad thing...

People like that are in the minority among whites, unfortunately they are often given the pen and the paper to promote propaganda. They either grew up believing such crap or they never took the time to actually examine things.

This guy is sorry for what?

Is he sorry that thousands of whites have been murdered? NO

Is he sorry that Apartheid laws have been replaced by Black Power laws? NO

Is he sorry that racist language against whites has now been mainstreamed, and race attacks against whites is routine? NO

Is he sorry that blacks are still poor while a new black elite replaced the old white elite, and so nothing really changed? NO

Is he sorry that crime is higher? NO

Is he sorry that thousands Afrikaners have fallen into poverty? NO

Is he sorry that blacks are every bit as capable of being supremacist? No

These articles and post about being sorry for something they did not contribute to are propaganda.

Articles like these are meant to get whites to feel guilty and to remember things in a certain way, neglecting the truth and the present.

The same things are done in America where you still occasionally get articles in the newspapers by known race-hustling columnist who repeat their own sorrow for American history every black history month in a new article that just recycles old lies. They don't want us to look at the negative things happening today or the hate against whites so they harken back to a century or more ago to makes whites think in a fresh perspective about an era that has been totally re-written and they keep making it fresh in the minds of white people today so that whites don't recognize their own racial persecution.

It is sickening and sad that there are people like this who don't have a single cell in their body that cares about their own people, and their all too willing to be used as propaganda and get the shameful kind of attention and respect they get satisfaction out of.

It is sickening and sad that there are people like this who don't have a single cell in their body that cares about their own people, and their all too willing to be used as propaganda and get the shameful kind of attention and respect they get satisfaction out of.